Heteroplacidium
Genus of lichens
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Heteroplacidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Austrian lichenologist Othmar Breuss in 1996 with Heteroplacidium imbricatum assigned as the type species. It was proposed as a segregate of Catapyrenium.[2] Other morphologically similar genera are Neocatapyrenium, Placidium, and Scleropyrenium, although molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are independent monophyletic lineages within the Verrucariaceae.[3][4]
| Heteroplacidium | |
|---|---|
| |
| Heteroplacidium fusculum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Verrucariales |
| Family: | Verrucariaceae |
| Genus: | Heteroplacidium Breuss (1996) |
| Type species | |
| Heteroplacidium imbricatum (Nyl.) Breuss (1996) | |
Most Heteroplacidium species are autonomous lichens, generally crustose and areolate. Four species in the genus are obligate parasites or facultatively lichenicolous – H. compactum, H. fusculum, H. transmutans, and H. zamenhofianum.[5]
Species
- Heteroplacidium acarosporoides (Zahlbr.) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium acervatum (Breuss) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium compactum (A.Massal.) Gueidan & Cl.Roux (2008)
- Heteroplacidium congestum (Breuss & McCune) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium contumescens (Nyl.) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium divisum (Zahlbr.) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium endocarpoides (Breuss) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium fusculum (Nyl.) Gueidan & Cl.Roux (2007)
- Heteroplacidium imbricatum (Nyl.) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium phaeocarpoides (Nyl.) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium podolepis (Breuss) Breuss (1996)
- Heteroplacidium transmutans K.Knudsen, Breuss & Kocourk. (2014)[5]
- Heteroplacidium zamenhofianum (Clauzade & Cl.Roux) Gueidan & Cl.Roux (2007)
